Richard H. Baker - Misquoted Like Pat Robertson?

[faust9]

Meet Richard H. Baker. He's spent the 20 years of his life in Washton DC representing the good people of http://baker.house.gov/ . Now, Mr. Baker seems to have a problem. It seems the liberal media overheard him saying:

We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did.

However, Mr. Baker's side of the story is a little different. He says he was misquoted---Like good'ol pat---and his statement went more like this:

We have been trying for decades to clean up New Orleans public housing to provide decent housing for residents, and now it looks like God is finally making us do it

The corrected statement isn't much better IMHO. This has the surprising smack of the Pat Robertson debachle from a few weeks past. Ya'll remember that where the liberal media was working to torpedo poor poor Pat through no fault of his own?

Anywho, what do ya'll think?

Oh, and a link for those who want to read the WaPo article for yourselves.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/09/AR2005090901930.html

 

[pattylou]

I think it's a weird mentality indeed that embraces a God who sends a cat 4/5 hurricane because He got tired of waiting for local officials to clean up public housing.

What is *with* this religious segment?

 

[Skyhunter]

Another "religious compassionate conservative".

 

[Tarheel]

I have also heard mention of a statement from Barbara Bush (Gee Dub's mommy) saying that the conditions provided the evacuees wasn't that bad because "They don't have anything anyway"

 

[SOS2008]

I have disagreed that the disaster has been used as a psyops. However, if there are those who are thinking happily how the natural tragedy is eliminating poor people who are a drain on government resources, I would not be at all surprised. And if so, I gather they are feeling some disappointment that the death toll is not likely to be as high as originally projected, and worse yet, now these poor people are displaced--some in their own neighborhoods. Hmm...maybe God does work in mysterious ways.

 

[rachmaninoff]

I have also heard mention of...

Yes, here's a source for you:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/06/katrina.presidents.ap/

"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality ... And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."

 

[Smurf]

Hmm...maybe God does work in mysterious ways.

Then again.. maybe george did it.